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epididymal-specific lipocalin-6 (lipocalin-5, LCN6, LCN5, UNQ643/PRO1273)
Function: role in male fertility (putative)
Structure: belongs to the lipocalin family
Compartment:
- secreted protein
- located on head & tail of spermatozoa
- aggregated on post-acrosomal region of head
Expression:
- predominantly expressed in epididymis
General
lipocalin
secreted protein
Properties
SIZE: MW = 18 kD
entity length = 163 aa
COMPARTMENT: extracellular compartment
MOTIF: signal sequence {1-20}
Database Correlations
UniProt P62502
References
UniProt :accession P62502